Inflation is the senility of democracies.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people.

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us